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Riley Sager

Charting Jul 22, 2018Sep 13, 2026 · 22 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    20182026

    First crown Aug 2026

Peak Power
2.46%
week of Sep 6, 2026
Career Power
127
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
29
September 2025 – September 2026
Peak Five Years
108
September 2021 – September 2026
Top-five weeks
6
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
22
weeks with chart power
Dominance
15.61%
week of Aug 23, 2026
Comebacks
1
Aug 2026

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction

9 books · 127 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each book earned this author: their weekly Power Share, split across their books (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Book Power is the book's own figure, the same for every author on it. Bar length compares books within this list.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Unknown#1428.7
The House Across the Lake#3427.6
The Only One Left#6525.9
Middle of the Night#5314.5
With a Vengeance#5211.2
Survive the Night#617.3
Home Before Dark#815.5
Lock Every Door#914.8
The Last Time I Lied#1512.1

At their peak

2025 in books

Riley Sager's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2025 to September 2026. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Virginia Evans428
  2. 2Matt Dinniman364
  3. 3Caro Claire Burke283
  4. 4Dan Brown225
  5. 5John Grisham210
  6. 6SenLinYu210
  7. 7Kathryn Stockett192
  8. 8James Patterson159
  9. 9Ann Patchett155
  10. 10Callie Hart123

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.